IRELAND: Gentleman Jack Gets Back

LET'S BACK JACK, urged the campaign banners
of Ireland's Fianna Fáil (Band of Destiny) Party. Going to the polls
last week in the country's first general election in four years, Irish
voters did exactly that. In a stunning upset, John ("Gentleman Jack")
Lynch and his Fianna Fáil ousted the coalition government of Prime
Minister Liam Cosgrave's Fine Gael (Family of the Irish) and the Irish
Labor Party. Even though Ireland's proportional representation system
had been gerrymandered by the government to compensate for Fianna
Fáil's traditional strength in rural districts, Lynch's party won...